Independent evaluator Artificial Analysis reported on November 11 that ACE Music v1, the new music generation model from ACE Studio, debuted at #1 on AA-Music-Vocal v1.1 with an Elo of 1160, ahead of Suno v6 (1144) and Suno v6-mini (1132). Rankings come from blind votes by AA's validated private evaluators. ACE Music v1 generates full tracks with vocals or instrumentals from a text description or your own lyrics, and AA found it strongest on Reggae / Dancehall and Classical / Orchestral prompts. The model has no API for now and is only available in the ACE Music app, with a free tier of 20 credits a day and paid plans from $7.90 a month billed yearly.
Key Takeaways
- ✓Leaderboard: the top 5 on AA-Music-Vocal v1.1 are ACE Music v1 (Elo 1160), Suno v6 (1144), Suno v6-mini (1132), Mureka V9.5 (1101) and Mureka V9 (1063), a 16-point lead over #2
- ✓Method: blind votes from AA's validated private evaluators; AA says ACE Music v1 is strongest on Reggae / Dancehall and Classical / Orchestral prompts
- ✓Availability: no API, app-only in ACE Music; the free tier gives 20 credits a day (about 10 songs), with no downloads and no commercial use
- ✓Pricing (official site, billed yearly): Creator at $7.90/month for 1,000 credits (about 500 songs) with commercial rights; Artist at $16.58/month for about 1,250 songs
- ✓Background: ACE Studio was founded in 2018 in AI singing voice synthesis and co-develops the open-weights ACE-Step music model family with StepFun
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Background and industry pain point
AI music generation has largely been led by Suno this year, with Suno v6 sitting at the top of most vocal music leaderboards. For people making video soundtracks, ads and independent music, that leaves few choices, with pricing and control set by a handful of vendors. ACE Studio, founded in 2018, started in AI singing voice synthesis: its ACE Studio app is an AI music workstation that turns MIDI and lyrics into vocals, and it co-develops the open-weights ACE-Step family with StepFun. Its new closed model, ACE Music v1, went straight to #1 on its first appearance.
Architecture and mechanism
Neither ACE Studio nor AA has disclosed the model's architecture, parameter count or training data. What is known: it generates full tracks with vocals or instrumentals from a text description or your own lyrics, and the ACE Music app also turns humming, keyboard melodies or uploaded scores into full songs, plus AI covers and mashups.
Benchmarks
On Artificial Analysis' AA-Music-Vocal v1.1 leaderboard, ACE Music v1 scores an Elo of 1160, followed by Suno v6 (1144), Suno v6-mini (1132), Mureka V9.5 (1101) and Mureka V9 (1063). Rankings come from blind votes by AA's validated private evaluators. A 16-point lead is narrow and may shift as more votes come in. AA says the model is strongest on Reggae / Dancehall and Classical / Orchestral prompts. No other vendor benchmarks have been published.
Getting started
There is no API yet, so developers who want to integrate it will have to wait. Individuals can try it at acemusic.ai on the free tier of 20 credits a day, without downloads or commercial use. Commercial rights start with the Creator plan at $7.90 a month billed yearly. For local deployment, look at the open ACE-Step 1.5, which the site says has unlimited generations and MP3 downloads with commercial use included.
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